Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
PROHIBITION.
What the Newspapers OF the State Say
OF the Contest in Texas Over
Alcohol and Malt.
Are Favored With the Usual Jour
nalistic Condiments.

The Prohibitionists fairly scream with
delight because they have discovered a
communication, addressed by liquor men
to liquor men, asking them how to work
for their interest Now, their interest is
to be affected by the amendment. They
would be crazy were they not to organ ize
30 fight it, and anyone who sees anything
criminal in it is blind with fanaticism.
At the same time the True Blues have Or
ganiZed and will issue an address. They
have no direct interest to be affected.
They are fighting for the general Weal
and against this most unh0ly attack on
the principles of free government. II
the PrOhibitiOnists cannot find anything
to argue from except that those opposing
their crankiness have organized and are
organizing, they are hard ND for argu-
ments indeed. They seem to think they
alone have the right to collect money,
spend it, issue addresses, publish COM
muuicatiOns and bolster their cause in
the papers But their anger at the other
side for organizing is in keeping with the
same petty, tyTranical spirit that gave
birth to their prohibition ITSELF Dallas
Times.
It is credibly stated that there were
twenty-five men in attendance at the re-
cent anti convention from st. Louis, and
it IS believed that they were here rs the
representatives of the Anheuser-Busch
and Lemp Brewing Companies and the
National Protective (Liquor) Association.
AS to their exact mission we leave the
public to draw their own conclusions
Dallas Herald.
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Texas has thrown wide her doors to
the people of foreign lands; her people
have received them with open arms; ad-
mitted them to their society; protected
them in the full and complete enjoyment
of republican rights; walked hand in
hand with them to the ballot box; lifted
them to places of trust and honor and
profit; and after all we are now called
upon to preserve and suffer the LIQUOR
traffic in all its hideousness that the Ger
man may have more beer Troupe
Vidette.
The Germans and foreigners generally
are good deal like other people in this
country-some of them will vote for pro-
hibition and some against it. One of the
strongest men in the state prohibition
convention st Waco was a representative
German, living in German district of
Texas, and he declared emphaticalIy that
his people would be divided on the cues
ton - Tyler Democrat,
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The anti-ProhibitiOnists are quoting
approvingly a remark of the Philadelphia
Record that Texas is a state of magnif-
cent distances and that the whole United
States army could not enforce prohibi-
ton in it. This gives the lie to their Oft
repeated statements that the people of
Texas are laW-abiding. The two don't
agree. Which is correct? 1t is simply be-
cause "TeXas is the state of magnificent
distances" that prohibition can be en-
forced. Whisky, like the criminals it
makes, finds its seCurest retreats in the
great thoroughfares. The rural popula-
ton, scattered over these magnificent
distances" are opposed to saloons and
will see to it that prohibition is enforced.
It is easier to enforce prohibition in
Texas than in any state in the Union, and
simply because there are few large cities,
and a great number of honest country
people, Johnson City Echo.
There seems to be less excitement over
the prohibition question in Clay county
than In any other county in the state.
Our people are too busy preparing for
crops, working for more railroads, ar
ranging for street railways, artesian wells,
ice factories and other important enter
prises that will build up and boom our
town and county, to give the prohibition
question much attention. Henrietta In
dependent.
Whatever may be the fate of the prohi-
bitiOn amendment, it is clearly the duty
of those who have the campaign in charge,
on both sides, to conduct it upon the real
principles involved. A victory gained by
corrupt use of money will be equal to de-
1eat. The true manhood and the true
ballot Of this country has never yet been
subdued in this way. Truth is mighty
and will prevail. 1t will not do then for
either side to desert the true issue with
hope of winning by agencies unfair and
false. i Terrell Star.
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The PrOhibitiOniste have resurreCted an
old document of 1856, showing that Mills
was at that time one OF their kind. This
may be so. At that time he was very
young, and probably his mind was not de-
velOped in the same condition that is the
mind of the Prohibitionist now. Besides,
he was counting then, and his sweetheart
had been to barbecue with another boy,
a day or two before, who had touched a
drop or two Dallas Times.
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In the News of this morning we find
these words from their Austin CORE
spondent:
1t is estimated that if prohibition pre-
vail it would create 81, 00e, 900 vacuum in
revenue resources and expenditures of the
state to be supplied by taxation. The
ants, of course, don't relish such figures,
but the Prohibitionist are reckless, and
say Gall RIGHT ~